January 2012 Grocery Challenge

Linz4383

gotta pop out for sum milk later so SHOULD b a small £1 spend but ill update later although i have spent £30 on sum xmas pressies mr.ts ave a sale on the internet! just got 3 thomas the tank presents for £30 DOWN FROM!!!! £105 :eek: so theyll b tucked away ready for this yr startin to get a nice little stock of pressies now there wont b much to do !!! xmas
had a couple of whoopsied pizza out of the freezer for dinner

spendaholic

My last weekend of January's money I spent £33, giving me a declaration of £172 against a £175 budget. Swoon! I can't believe I did it. :cool:

raphanius

just checked my MOC's and i have a £5 off £25 spend at M*rks plus a £3 off £30 spend at Icel*nd and both expire on Jan 31st. It seems silly not to use them for February's shopping so i will start my February shopping on Monday 30th IYSWIM.

same budget as January so....

FEBRUARY £200

HelenPie

Hello :hello:

I've been a little bit of a lurker for many a month (on and off) but never really participated, nor have I ever actually stuck to my budget for an entire month However, I am feeling inspired by mothership's second purse concept, as set out in kerri_dfw's new thread :T

January's budget has been well and truely blown but I would like to join in for next month, if I may? This thread clearly moves very quickly so I am likely to be mostly lurking and catching up daily with the email notifications but could you please put me down for:

£250 for February

Thank you :T:T

Helen xx


Ooh! Edit: When does the board for the next month generally start? If I'm not on the ball enough I might miss it otherwise

kerri_dfw

Ok so first month of doing this properly (this month was only 3 weeks and I've been doing well). Going to set myself £150 for Feb but I'm really hoping it comes in under this, still aiming for the usual £20 a week
FEBRUARY £150

123budget

Kylieminoag wrote: »

Please can I ask if you do come under budget what do you do with the underspend? I dont know whether to save it in my sealed pot or carry it forward.

Also - as we get near to the end of the month is it a new thread for the new challenge? - I'd like to reduce my target for february a bit

Thanks

At the moment if I come in under budget it is going towards our holiday, but in the future I am going to put it into a bulk buy purse so that when offers come up I can stockpile without using the monthly budget

I haven't checked all the thread yet so someone may have answered your question already but when you have completed you month ( everyone has different from and too dates) you just write in bold red what your budget is for the following month and that is added to the list. There is a new forum for the beginning of each new month - just follow the new link when it is added.

BohemianCoast

OK, well, big grocery order coming in Thursday and it's going to put me over the top but not by a huge amount (less than in December). £350 felt pretty achievable though so let's keep with £350 for February which is a short month. Apart from ordering in pizza as birthday treat for daughter, we've not had any unexpected meals out or takeaways, so this is pretty positive.

cattysmum

My grand total for January spend it £186.00 Iv had quite a good month in Jan as I had lots of stuff left from Xmas. Hopefully in Feb I will be just as disciplined with my grocery shop so am gonna go with £250 my lowest yet!!!!! for February. Hopefully I wont need to spend any more in Jan. Good luck for Feb everyone!!

Ninno820

Well done everyone for their successes. Just popping in to report another NSD.

Florenceem

cowboymum wrote: »

Oh dear haven't quite managed to keep to budget - over by almost £40! Want to blame it on the fact that I was ill this weekend so DH went shopping and isn't quite as frugal as me (!) but I am also to blame for a take away pizza for £25 which I didn't really enjoy (it had been at the end of a long stressful day!).

Oh well, its given me an idea of where we went right and wrong (and to get a stack of cheepo pizzas in the frezzer for stressful day's tea!).

Wow! £25 for Pizza - I never have takeaways so had no idea how much they cost. Certainly not going to start having them now. I am thinking of all the things I could do with £25.